""Love is a dangerous thing. It will crush you if you trust it. But without it you can never be whole. Love crucifies, but love saves. We will either be saved together with love, or damned alone without it." Selam, +GMK+

Only pray for me, that God would give me both inward and outward strength, that I may not only speak, but truly will; and that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really be found to be one. St.Ignatius of Antioch.Epistle to the Romans.

Heck yeah. 'Setting Sons' album was his finest moment, and that may very well be the best song from the album, though it is really best experienced as part of a thematic whole. I think the album was conceived as a sort of a nostalgic 'rock opera' (?), somewhat along the lines of Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society'; Always seemed that way to me, anyhow.

Agreed all around.

May I respectfully be the voice of dissent then? At least as far as The Jam go, I'm still a huge fan of their first three LPs and all of the associated singles. I like selected tracks from the later stuff, but it just sounds a bit too polished for my liking. Similarly, I never got into Weller's stuff the same. "A Bomb" is, of course, an all-time classic.

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One of my bands is playing at a Jam/Clash tribute night next month and we're doing "Thick as Thieves" (along with "A Bomb," "Pretty Green," and "Saturday's Kids")...

Of course, it's Weller Wednesday, too, so that leads me to my late morning soundtrack of Stanley Road (live).

I remember this LP (We Gotta Get Out of This Place) being really hard to find years after the release, because it was issued by Warner Brothers rather than a niche/independent label. You'd think the opposite, being on a major label, but it wasn't. Anyway, now we have CDs and these internet things. I'll take an afternoon in Camden Town record shops over web surfing any day though.

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